Alternatives and competitors
Sites like F5
The 20 closest application delivery alternatives to F5, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 10 technologies behind it.
Looking for an alternative to F5? The closest matches are nginx, ngenix.net and Gainsight. We match sites by what they actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Vote on each alternative and leave a short note to help the next person choose.
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
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- Vector
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- Query
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01 · Entity
About F5
F5 nginx.com
NGINX | F5
Deliver modern applications with NGINX. Explore high-performance load balancing, API gateways, and web server solutions trusted by top global enterprises.
Summary by Claude
F5's commercial NGINX product line: web server, reverse proxy, load balancer, API gateway, Kubernetes ingress controller, web application firewall, and managed NGINX services on Azure and Google Cloud, with SaaS management and observability tools.
- Who it’s for
- Enterprise DevOps and platform engineering teams
- Business model
- Software subscriptions and licensing
02 · Embedding space
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to F5’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Lines split each axis at the median. Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
03 · Nearest neighbours
Alternatives to F5
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to F5, thumbs down if it isn’t.
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Product Experience Platform | Enhance User Adoption with Gainsight
Gainsight’s digital product experience platform helps businesses leverage insights to generate revenue, prevent churn, and create personalized journeys.
Close cos 0.876 - 02
Cloudflare: Build for the agent era
Welcome to Cloudflare - Powering the next generation of applications
Close cos 0.873 - 03
The World's Most Distributed Cloud Computing Platform | Akamai
Build and deliver low-latency, edge native applications on Akamai Connected Cloud.
- Google Search Console
- Microsoft 365
- Adobe Experience Manager
- Adobe Experience Platform Tags
- Akamai
- Akamai Bot Manager
Close cos 0.873 - 04
Zyxel
Zyxel is a networking industry leader, deeply rooted in various network technology areas. We prioritize customer-centric product design, and focus on a superior competitive advantage, driving communication technology forward to meet the internet’s evolving demands.
Close cos 0.872 - 05
AI-Ready Networking & Secure Cloud Solutions | Lumen Technologies
Power your business with our global fiber network. We provide secure networking, edge cloud and AI-ready infrastructure to connect people, data and apps.
- Google Search Console
- Microsoft 365
- Adobe Experience Manager
- Adobe Experience Platform Tags
- Fastly
- Proofpoint
Close cos 0.870 - 06
Netgate | Firewall, VPN and Routing Solutions
Netgate is an open-source driven secure networking company that provides appliance and software-based firewall, VPN and routing solutions including pfSense
Close cos 0.868 - 07
privacy-focused online search engine
Close cos 0.872 - 08
ModSecurity Project – Open-Source Web Application Firewall
Protect your websites and apps with ModSecurity, the OWASP-backed open-source WAF trusted to stop threats. Upgrade your security today.
Close cos 0.868 - 09
Airwallex US: AI Financial Platform for Local & Global Business
Airwallex AI agents consolidate business accounts, transfers, cards, expenses, payments, and billing with $0 ACH and market-leading FX.
Close cos 0.866 - 10
World Leader in Artificial Intelligence Computing | NVIDIA
NVIDIA invents the GPU and drives advances in AI, HPC, gaming, creative design, autonomous vehicles, and robotics.
- Atlassian
- DocuSign
- Google Search Console
- Microsoft 365
- Adobe Experience Manager
- Adobe Experience Platform Tags
Close cos 0.865 - 11
Wix.com - The platform trusted by millions of businesses
Build the business you have in mind on a platform trusted by millions. Hosting, business tools, domains and marketing built in. Try it for free.
Close cos 0.867 - 12
Genesys Cloud: The Agentic AI CX Platform for the Enterprise | Genesys
Genesys Cloud is an agentic AI CX platform that delivers personalized customer and employee experiences across every channel.
Close cos 0.866 - 13
European Cloud & AI. | Scaleway
Build on a secure, transparent, and fast-moving cloud & AI platform built for what’s next.
Close cos 0.864 - 14
You.com | Search and inference for AI
The core AI infrastructure you need to maximize accuracy while reducing latency and costs.
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AI-powered Observability
New Relic is an AI-powered observability platform that correlates your telemetry across your entire stack, so you can isolate the root cause and reduce MTTR.
Close cos 0.866 - 16
Compliance Solutions for Websites, Apps and Organizations | iubenda
iubenda is your 360° compliance solution for global data privacy laws. Privacy policy generator, cookie consent management, ROPA, Terms and more.
Close cos 0.867 - 17
Proxmox - Powerful open-source server solutions
Proxmox develops powerful and efficient open-source server solutions like the Proxmox VE platform, Proxmox Backup Server, and Proxmox Mail Gateway.
Close cos 0.862 - 18
DuckDuckGo - Protection. Privacy. Peace of mind.
The Internet privacy company that empowers you to seamlessly take control of your personal information online, without any tradeoffs.
Close cos 0.865 - 19
Heroku | The Cloud Application Platform For Developers
Experience fully managed app hosting that just works. Build, deploy, and scale on the battle-tested platform that defines the industry.
Close cos 0.862 - 20
Opera Web Browser | Faster, Safer, Smarter | Opera
Faster, safer and smarter than default browsers. Fully-featured for privacy, security, and so much more. Get the faster, better Opera browser for free.
Close cos 0.862
Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to nginx.com’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones F5 uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.
04 · Fingerprints
Technology
What F5 is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.
Built with
- CMS
- Sanity page source: cdn.sanity.io/
- JavaScript frameworks
- Cookie consent
- TrustArc page source: consent.trustarc.com
- Hosting
- Vercel header x-vercel-id: fra1::iad1::4tk7j-1793956259598-59c308cddec6
- Email hosting
- Microsoft 365 TXT MS=ms49391549
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Atlassian TXT atlassian-domain-verification=Iv/Cm1UielF25k9FOYOH+QWS9iqMJUFKzUNVB9R…
- DocuSign TXT docusign=ec7fb56d-ee75-4979-b3e5-10bfbff0ab9e
- Dropbox TXT dropbox-domain-verification=gl56nwvh4szl
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=JrwNJWq0sLGx6H5Voxu-bQyH6-Fj6ifMzyNzIppraFc
Stack changes
No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what F5 adds or drops shows up here.
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 17/20
- Google Workspace · not on nginx.com 12/20
- Apple Business · not on nginx.com 9/20
- Microsoft 365 9/20
- Atlassian 8/20
- Cloudflare · not on nginx.com 7/20
- OneTrust · not on nginx.com 7/20
- Zendesk · not on nginx.com 7/20
- Zoom · not on nginx.com 6/20
- HubSpot · not on nginx.com 6/20
- DocuSign 6/20
- OpenAI · not on nginx.com 6/20
- jQuery · not on nginx.com 5/20
- Miro · not on nginx.com 5/20
- PHP · not on nginx.com 5/20
- Salesforce · not on nginx.com 5/20